Coding4Fun Kinect Projects

Peter Daukintis, Microsoft Technical Evangelist, fills in a Kinect for Windows v2 sample gap, providing a means to connect to a Kinect web WebSockets and thereby a web browser... Kinect 4 Windows V2 – in the browserFor the older Kinect v1.0 there was a sample included with the Kinect SDK which…

Scott Young and new Friend of the Gallery InterKnowlogy, provides a nice tip for Face detection with the Kinect... Some other recent InterKnowlogy blogger posts; Face Tracking without a KinectKinect without a KinectKinect 2.0 Face Frame Data with Other Frame DataDo you have a project that you are…

Today's inspirational project is one that, well, sells itself... (and one that I want in my Man Cave :) Connecting with beer lovers, Kinect-styleA lost puppy and his Clydesdales stablemates may have commanded the advertising spotlight during Super Bowl XLIX, but for our money, the real marketing…

Paul DeCarlo, Kinect4NES (Yes, Kinect to a Classic NES), is back and continues to push forward on his cool project, Kinect4NES... Training Kinect4NES to Control Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out! In a previous post, I talked about how to create an interface to send controller commands to an NES based on…

So you've got a Kinect and all Kinect devices are the same, right? Nope. While the Kinect for Windows v2 and the Kinect for Xbox One are very close, much closer than the 360-vs-Windows v1, they are still a little different (the Windows v2 device doesn't have the IR Blaster). Should you always just…

Today's inspirational post provides a great view of how Ubi Interactive's very cool looking product can be used to enhance the classroom experience, without breaking the bank... Ubi’s Kinect-powered touchscreens: an affordable solution for the classroomVictor Cervantes was searching for a solution.…

Today's project is from Dave Voyles sharing a new possible scripting language for the Kinect coming from Microsoft Research, Prepose... New “Prepose” scripting language for Kinect 2 from Microsoft ResearchPrepose Scripting LanguageMicrosoft Research has taken this one step further though, and…

Today's project is another one of those, if you need this, you really need it.... Labview library for Kinect V2For those interested, I have developed a library of Labview VI's to access data from the Kinect V2. It seemed that such a library was not available even though one was developed for the…

The Kinect for Windows team, have both started up a new blog, Kinect for Windows Developer Blog and also released all the Kinect for Windows Samples on CodePlex. Now you can easily browse, download and connect with the dev team! Kinect for Windows Samples The Kinect for Windows (K4W) team release…

Today's kind of hardware hack is one that I wouldn't have believed possible... Who would have thought that you could power a Kinect with some AA batteries and that it would be usable for hours? Making a battery pack for your KinectAs you know, we love our Kinect device, but one of the big problems…